Dennis Raphael

@dennisraphael.bsky.social

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Canadian, university professor, Bertolt Brecht admirer, Raptors fan, potato cannon engineer, South Riverdale enthusiast/resident, socialist since grade 6. More info about me here: https://discover.academics.yorku.ca/Dennis.Raphael/about .. more

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Dennis Raphael is a Canadian social scientist who has written extensively on the social inequalities in health in Canada and elsewhere.

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Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 15h

Defining health through a critical materialist political economy lens.
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Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 18h

Opinion | I was recruited to join a private health centre as a doctor. Here is why I said no
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Relevance of Georg Grosz’s Weimar-era drawings to promoting social justice and health equity in contemporary society

The arts and humanities can direct attention to the health-threatening effects of adverse living and working conditions and the political and economic systems that spawn them. Most of these efforts ai...

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Middle of road NDP party loses.

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Beyond Empathy to System Change: Four Poems on Health by Bertolt Brecht - Journal of Medical Humanities

Bertolt Brecht’s poem “A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor” is frequently cited as a means to raise awareness among health workers of the health effects of living and working conditions. Less cited is his C...

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Poverty and death in the wealthiest of nations

The USA is a rich nation in poor health. Until about 1980, the mortality rate differed little from other high-income nations; by 2019, it was 24% higher than peer nations.1 What happened in the interi...

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Tabby Boys

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Promoting Health Equity in an Era of Growing Contradictions Between Capital Accumulation and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Economies
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Promoting Health Equity in an Era of Growing Contradictions Between Capital Accumulation and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Economies - Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, Rozhin Amin, 2025

Background: Despite a robust literature on the importance of promoting health equity, actual progress in doing so is flagging and this is especially the case in...

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 2d

📢 THANK YOU for engaging with our #Inequality Graph of the Week series. We've now come to the end of the graphs in the main report of 'The Spirit Level at 15' but there are more graphs and evidence to see in the Technical Appendix for those interested. ♥️
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Secular_Girl @wifejackson.bsky.social · 3d

Despite promising a “generational” and “transformational” budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney is doubling down on resource extraction, militarism, and corporate handouts—appeasing Donald Trump and Canada’s corporate class, but doing little for working people.

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A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons ⋆ The Breach

Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget

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The decline in the physical stature of the U.S. population parallels the diminution in the rate of increase in life expectancy

The U.S. healthcare and food-provisioning systems have failed to create an environment in which the human biological organism can flourish. Consequent…

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Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 4d

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We ranked the NDP leadership candidates by how likely they are to disappoint you

After Jagmeet Singh’s disastrous run of the NDP has shown, left wing politicians will always disappoint you.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5d

This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory

At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said...

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 6d

My full statement on Zohran Mamdani's historic win.

Zohran Mamdani’s historic win in New York is a beacon of hope and possibility – proof that a people-powered, solutions-focused, democratic socialist campaign can defeat entrenched power in the centre of global wealth.

His campaign did what so many said was impossible. Despite a tidal wave of corporate spending and a chorus dismissing his ideas as “too radical,” voters gave a huge victory to a candidate who spoke directly to the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in a rigged economy, offering concrete solutions as big as the crises working people face.

Like so many Canadians, I’ve been deeply inspired by Mamdani’s campaign – by the way he built power from the ground up, organizing with working people, tenants, young people and a diverse multiracial coalition long shut out of political power.

It’s the same energy and vision that’s driving our campaign here in Canada: a politics that takes on concentrated wealth, offers public options where markets fail, makes life much more affordable, and integrates climate solutions into everything we do.

Mamdani’s victory isn’t an outlier — it’s part of a new wave of bottom-up politics. Its lesson is simple: if you fight for people, people fight back with you.

Tonight, New Yorkers showed that politics rooted in justice, dignity, and solidarity can win — and win big. Canadians are hungry for that same courage and clarity.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6d

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Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan

The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 6d

New Yorkers just proved bold socialist ideas can win. Ottawa just proposed the most harmful climate and care budget since Harper.

Bold ideas win and we need to rebuild that kind of NDP.

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WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 6d

The arc of his success is nothing short of staggering. At the start of the year, Mamdani was polling at 1%, tied, as he likes to say, with the candidate known as “someone else.”

Now, at age 34, he will be NYC's youngest leader in more than a century

How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor

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Truthout @truthout.org · 6d

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, marking a historic win for the left over a high-powered, moneyed coalition of establishment forces that came together in hopes of defeating him.

Zohran Mamdani Wins Decisive Victory in NYC, Triumphing Over Billionaire Onslaught

Mamdani is one of just a few democratic socialists to ever win the seat for the largest city in the U.S.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 6d

Zohran Mamdani’s opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.